There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity-the law of nature, and of nations. Edmund Burke, Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Our new age is characterized by rapidly increasing, previously unknown, features driven mainly by the cumulative results of human technological advance. The information revolution has permeated human life, thought and consciousness like no previous technical phenomenon. The information superhighway has enabled people worldwide to access knowledge and news, and promoted the awareness needed to make informed decisions and choices.
Jayyous is a peaceful little village with 3000 habitants. It is green and beautiful, with kind and generous people. But the wall, the so called security wall, even called the apartheid wall, is now built through the village. Last night I could not sleep because of the machines and noise from the building not far from our house. All fertile land is being systematically confiscated at the moment, I am told again and again. The wall does not get built on the green line that separates The West bank from Israel, instead it is built far into the West bank, sometimes only some meters from peoples homes and the farmers in Jayyous are loosing their land.
If there is one element that all people would rather have by all means is peace. Yet, people in general do hardly anything to secure this priceless gift. It is an element that we cannot purchase with all the money and wealth of our earthly planet. However, this element is at our disposal at any moment. It all boils down as to whether we seriously want it or not. Peace is the source of our joy and happiness, of our tranquility of mind, and of the secret of success in our spiritual sphere especially.
What are you supposed to do when the world's most over-armed, belligerent and dangerous nation, which outspends all the rest of the world combined on arms, and which is the major arms supplier to the rest of the world, tells a little country like Venezuela that it is guilty of spending "too much" on its military?
